When one is baptized and enters into the Lord’s Kingdom (Acts 2:38, 47), they become enthusiastic about the work that they are wanting to do. They desire to please the Lord any way they can, but the life of a Christian can be filled with obstacles and hardships. After a while, one can get so confused that they begin to have different feelings of God. Sin in the world can cause someone to lose their faith as well as friends that are not in the church. They begin to miss Wednesday night service because of conflicts or hassles. Then, they hold the view that Christ said to worship on sundays and forget about Sunday nights. Furthermore, they doubt the leadership of the elders calling them names or saying that they are just old men who don’t know what it’s like to live in the world. Finally, their attendance at Sunday morning service is compromised. The once strong, devoted, and leading Christian have become one with the world, leaving the church and forgetting that God was ever there. They begin to fill their lives with as many activities as possible to compensate for their empty and hateful feeling against God. They have become an unbeliever and an atheist. What a sad day it should be when one leaves the Lord. They have forgotten that “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (Jn 3:16)” They have ignored that there is a Heaven and a Hell and that everlasting fire was “prepared for the devil and his angels. (Matt 25:41)” God Loves his children and God loves sinners, but he hates the sin. It is God who wants them to come back to Him and to make their life right and Christians should help their eternal family so this may never happen. “For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. (2 Pet 2:21)” Let us all encourage and build up others so when we all get to Heaven we will see what a day of rejoicing that will be because we stood strong all our lives in the Lord. Robert Notgrass